directly yield utility. It is important to note that some measures of social interaction show declines while many do not. A … model of household production is employed to derive the demand for social interaction. The model shows that the demand for …) and the results show that social interaction can be explained as the consequence of utility maximizing behavior by …

an objective function that may be household expected utility. We show how to derive a target criterion that is: (i …-setting, in which the objective of policy is to maximize household expected utility …

Using implicit expected utility theory, a money metric of utility derived from playing a lottery game is developed …. Output of the lottery sector can be defined as the difference in utility with and without the game. Using a kinked parametric …

distribution. We test and confirm these implications using a survey of recent immigrants into Canada. We develop a simple …

high-resolution geographic data from three Canada-wide social surveys and the 2001 census to disentangle the spatial …

compensating differentials, measured as the changes in household income that would produce equivalent levels of life satisfaction …

A choice-theoretic model of household decision-making with respect to care-giving time allocations and the use of …

We use individual and aggregate data to ask how the Internet is changing the ideological segregation of the American … evidence that the Internet is becoming more segregated over time …

This paper analyses the rapid diffusion of the Internet across the United States over the past decade for both … households and firms. We put the Internet's diffusion into the context of economic diffusion theory where we consider costs and … benefits on the demand and supply side. We also discuss several pictures of the Internet's physical presence using some of the …